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=3EIn a message dated 97-11-17 13:14:39 EST, you write:
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=3E=3C=3C      As the winter drearies approach, I am looking for some good
=3E      cartographic reads, and am wondering if mapsters out there have
=3E      favorite fiction incorporating the use of maps in important ways.
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At the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives meeting in
Saskatoon last May, one of our speakers was William Sarjeant of the
University of Saskatchewan who writes using his two middle names of Antony
Swithin.  He has created a series of novels about the island of Rockall.
In the words of James Boxall from the conference report =22Sarjeant, at the
age of fourteen, began a series of stories based upon extrapolations from
maps he created ('imagined') of what a society would have been like on
Rockall (the barren rocks northwest of the UK).  Out of years of refining
maps and stories came a series of books based upon his original stories.
He has published several volumes (5 =BD) and will probably complete twelve =
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total.  The books are not fantasy, science or historical fiction - they are
examples of how maps can be interpreted by one's imagination and some
careful use of geological, geographic and social theory to build a
plausible theory of what could have been.  Dr. Sarjeant showed off many of
his maps, town plans and other drawings.=22 While not heavily illustrated,
these paperbacks each have a number of maps.  The ones that I bought which
are going to my nephew for Christmas are:
 
Princes of Sandastre.  London: Fontana/Collins, 1990.  ISBN 0-00-617852-9.
(The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse, Book One)
 
The Lords of the Stoney Mountains.  London: Fontana, 1992.  ISBN
0-00-617853-7.  (The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse, Book Two)
 
The Winds of the Wastelands.  London: Fontana, 1992.  ISBN 0-00-617854-5.
(The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse, Book Three)
 
The Nine Gods of Safaddne.  London: Fontana, 1993.  ISBN 0-00-617855-3.
(The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse, Book Four)
 
 
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Alberta Auringer Wood, Maps, Data and Media Librarian
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland,
CANADA  A1B 3Y1.   phone: 709-737-8892=3B fax: 709-737-2153=3B
Internet: awood=40morgan.ucs.mun.ca
http://www.mun.ca/library/maps
http://www.mun.ca/library/media
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